Israeli historian - "fundamentalist Ashkenazis...carried out human sacrifices
El Kabong
Feb 7, 2007
Historian gives credence to blood libel
By LISA PALMIERI-BILLIG
ROME
An Israeli historian of Italian origin has revived "blood libel" in an
historical study set to hit Italian bookstores on Thursday. Ariel Toaff, son
of Rabbi Elio Toaff, claims that there is some historic truth in the
accusation that for centuries provided incentives for pogroms against Jews
throughout Europe.
Toaff's tome, Bloody Passovers: The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murders,
received high praise from another Italian Jewish historian, Sergio Luzzatto,
in an article in the Corriere della Serra daily entitled "Those Bloody
Passovers."
Luzzatto describes Toaff's work as a "magnificent book of history...Toaff
holds that from 1100 to about 1500...several crucifixions of Christian
children really happened, bringing about retaliations against entire Jewish
communities - punitive massacres of men, women, children. Neither in Trent
in 1475 nor in other areas of Europe in the late Middle Ages were Jews
always innocent victims."
"A minority of fundamentalist Ashkenazis...carried out human sacrifices,"
Luzzatto continued.
Toaff refers to kabbalistic descriptions of the therapeutic uses of blood
and asserts that "a black market flourished on both sides of the Alps, with
Jewish merchants selling human blood, complete with rabbinic certification
of the product - kosher blood."
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